Will Labour be able to deliver on their promise of change?

Interview with politics expert Dr Steve McCabe.

Transcript

00:00Well, they've got big difficulties. The financial situation is dreadful, and I'm happy to agree

00:06with Rachel Reeves. The worst situation since the Second World War. So their ability to

00:10put lots of money in is going to require a lot of creative thinking and effort to grow

00:16the economy, which is what they're talking about. For the last eight years, and I go

00:19back to the EU referendum, we've had political chaos. And all that went that with the outcome

00:24of the referendum. Of course, that led to May, and then more particularly Johnson, which

00:28was a particularly chaotic time and sort of pandemic, probably the worst possible person

00:32you could have had at that time. And of course, the sort of the lack of integrity that sort

00:36of that people sort of believed went with the sort of the Conservative administration.

00:40Keir Starmer and his sort of government is going to be very different. So I think we're

00:44going to have a sort of a government that is working on behalf of the people. But I

00:48don't doubt that in the fullness of time, people will sort of go bored with it, because

00:52of course, that's the nature of the electorate. But undoubtedly, for the time being, it feels

00:56very sort of fresh and new. Yeah, and shades of sort of 1997 under sort of Blair.